Team Fortress 2...It's About Time!

(Geek Alert)
If you play video games, and you've never heard of Team Fortress, Allah help you. If you have, then you must be just as excited as I am to hear that we will actually live to see the sequel of the game that essentially got most of us into multi-player online gaming.

The original Team Fortress came out as a MOD to the original Half-Life, back in the day ('the day' being the mid-nineties). The first ever 'character class' based first person shooter (fps), it allowed players to choose from one of nine different types of soldier, each with his own specific strength and weakness. You were then placed on either a Red or Blue team, whose mission was to either capture the flag, wipe out the other team, or occupy all checkpoings within a map- all online, along side 12-15 year olds, with usually quite the potty mouths.

Not long after Team Fortress arrived came Counterstrike, the grandfather of squad based first person shooters. Sometime after the popularity of all three games peaked, there was much rumor and hype about the sequel to Team Fortress. That was several years ago. It was thought to be an all but dead title...until now.

There's a new Pixar look and feel this time around, which is causing some rumblings on the web among old-school fans of the original, but in my opinion, if the gameplay remains as good as the old days, adding whatever newfangled techno advancements brung this to the 21st century, I'll be anxiously anticipating its release. Hopefully this time around, it won't be another ten years when it does.